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Nintendo DS adds MIDI over WiFi to its list of talents

Thursday, November 23rd

Nine out of ten electronically-minded cats agree, there’s nothing like a portable games console that gets the home-brew hackers tingling.  For what better way to lavish praise onto a handheld than to re-purpose it, either by getting it online or by turning it into a musical instrument.  This project isn’t quite the latter, but it’s perhaps more useful; it takes the humble Nintendo DS and turns it into a wireless MIDI controller.  Programmer and musician Tob Weyand is working on using the DS’ touchscreen as a Korg Kaoss-style XY pad, and is having some success as seen in this video:

It’s early days, but Tob is promising a software release sometime soon once it’s all a bit more polished. 

Tob Weyland [via Music thing]

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Getting your Wii online

Thursday, November 23rd

Seeing as that lovely happy Wii you queued so patiently to acquire is sat there under your widescreen TV permanently connected to your internet connection, wouldn’t it be nice if you could use it to surf when you’re not gesturing like a crazy person?  Out of the box, however, you can’t… but Mobility Today has had a top tip from a person named “sitedude” as to how you can (quite easily) set it up yourself.

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MacBook Marionette

Thursday, November 23rd

We already know that the MacBook’s internal motion sensor is more useful than simply for shutting the hard-drive down should you drop it, but some of the uses are more curious than others.  For instance, have you ever thought that your lovely shiny Apple is a little bit like a traditional puppet?  No?  Well dasAutomat have, and they’ve got the video to prove it.

With the MacBook suspended on a platter, an on-screen puppet is manipulated in sync with the movements of the puppeteer.  Is it the best way to use your laptop?  No, not really.  But is it fun?  Yeah, I guess it is.

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Open-Source OS DAP runs Skype

Thursday, November 23rd

Linux is spreading, and the latest thing it has found its way into is the entertainingly-named Wizpy DAP from TurboLinux.  Running a brand of the open-source OS called FUJI, not only is the Wizpy good for playing all your mp3, Ogg, WMA and AAC files, together with DIVX video, but it can be loaded with anything you can get to run on its mobile processor.  Out of the box you get Firefox, Thunderbird and Skype, and there’s a whole community out there desperate to educate you as to what other Microsoft alternatives you can download.

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Wizpy weighs a mere 2.1 ounces and measures 3.3″ x 1.7″ x 0.5″; battery life is rated at ten hours, it has 4gb of storage and a 1.7-inch OLED display, as well as an FM radio for when you’re sick of your own music.  FUJI linux does take up 1.5gb of that space, however, so you’re down to 2.5gb for your music and videos.  It’s expected to cost around $250 when it launches in Japan next February.

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World of Warcraft dedicated Gaming PC

Thursday, November 23rd

Once upon a time PCs were marketed as “do it all” work-horses, capable of word processing one minute, crunching stats the next, then finishing the day off by playing games.  Now it seems like specificity is the way to go, with manufacturer’s desperate to align their products with one particular service or game.  Today it’s WidowPC and their World of Warcraft gaming PC, apparently the first commercial computer to be designed especially for WoW players.  Central to the machine’s boasts is an intelligent “Killer NIC” which boosts network performance via a dedicated processor. 

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Other than that, it’s pretty much a standard gaming PC - the usual choice of high-end graphics cards, RAM configurable up to 4GB and AMD Athlon 64 processors from 3000+ upwards.  It starts at $1,495, after which the sky is the limit with options.  Personally, I always thought that half of the fun with PC-intensive games was building a machine that could handle them, but there’s obviously a market for them.

WidowPC [via Geek Zone]

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iPod Shuffle 2 Unboxing

Thursday, November 23rd

Hang on, do Apple actually grow the iPod Shuffle 2 in a tiny hydroponic case?  No, of course they don’t; this is just the packaging you doofus.  Palm Is Life decided to document the unboxing of their Shuffle, and ended up with some lovely photos.  It’s quite difficult to conceptualise the sheer tininess of the critter; who will be the first person to send me a photo of it clipped to their nose as a scale comparison?

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Wii Wireless: Sensor Bar cord gets cut

Thursday, November 23rd

You couldn’t really accuse the Wii of having too many wires - part of it’s charm is the simplicity of the back-panel, having just power, A/V out, the connection for the Sensor Bar and the ubiquitous USB ports that no gadget may be released without.  Well, some people are never happy, and the people over at MAKE: epitomise the “that could be better” spirit; hence Brian “DoctaBu” Moore’s Wireless Wii Sensor Bar project.

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Discovering that the Bar sends no information back to the Wii, only receives power, Brian built his own out of InfraRed LEDs and some batteries.  Now he has a wireless Bar that he can use with his projector, and no damned cable going all the way across the room.  Check out his video after the cut.

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Flexible Torchlight the easy way

Wednesday, November 22nd

In a casual straw-poll I did of some children I keep locked in the coal cellar, almost seven out of ten agreed that the biggest growth industry for the next five decades will be proctology, and that the job most would prefer would be some sort of endoscope operator.  I would’ve asked more, but the constant whining and pleading for food, water and freedom gives me a headache.  Anyway, please your offspring this Yule with the marvellously cheap flashlight fibre-optic adaptor, guaranteed to bring that shiver of colonic exploratory delight to all but the surliest of teens.

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Simply pushing to fit over the head of a normal torch, the flexible shaft allows you to direct the light into any nook, cranny or paying patient.  It’s available in seven inch and twenty inch models, depending on your enthusiasm (and torch), costing $6.97 and $9.97 respectively.

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Emergency Medical Information in your wallet

Wednesday, November 22nd

Given the current climate of litigation, it’s actually statistically more dangerous to attempt to resuscitate an unconscious person in the street than it is to dance naked in a pit of angry, poisonous snakes.  Get one thing wrong and before you know it, you’re up in the dock trying to explain why jabbing someone in the throat with the barrel of a biro seemed like a great idea at the time.  Luckily, impromptu medical calamity should soon be a thing of the bleary eyed past, as we all get our hands on EMI’s 911 rCard.

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As is obvious from the picture and the name, it’s a credit card sized slab of medical-documentation goodness.  Scroll keys allow for navigating multiple pages of allergies, current medication and charts from recent scans and tests.  Should the USB-rechargeable battery go dead, the toll-free number on the back links to the subscription-based EMI service, who for $20 a year will keep your information updated and available should you fall to the ground after drinking far too many carbonated beverages.

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Holding a handset is for fools: you need a home speaker-phone

Wednesday, November 22nd

In a world of machine-washable suits, non-stick pans and inflatable cart-horses, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the latest “we’ll make life easier” gadget to invade our homes and suckle at our electricity supply is a consumer VOIP speaker-phone.  After all, there’s so much online shopping, online chatting and online general-living to be done, where’s the time to actually visit your family and friends?  I certainly haven’t even got enough time to talk to myself; I’m forced to email quick pangs of conscience and sudden urges to myself, and hope that they don’t get swallowed up by the ever-voracious spam filters.

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Canyon are hoping to solve that problem, or at least a little part of it, with their VOIP Station - a vaguely conical device that looks a little like an Apple AirPort that has turned to the dark side.  Plug it in via USB, call up your parents via your service-of-choice, and then bask in being able to strut around doing at least four other things while berating them for squandering your inheritance.

The cost of all this ease?  £39.95 ($75.84)

Canyon [via Shiny Shiny]

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Fujitsu Stylistic Slates melt my heart

Wednesday, November 22nd

Oh sweet mother of a tiny goose, my mouth sure is watering tonight!  Feast your eyes, friends and neighbours, on this gorgeous slate Tablet PC from Fujitsu.  Less than an inch thick, with a magnesium-alloy lower housing and weighing just 3.5 pounds, this truly is the bee’s knees of keyboard-less pen computing.  It’s not just pretty, either; with a 1.2GHz Intel Core Duo Mobile processor, minimum of 512mb of RAM (upgradeable to 4Gb) and 40Gb 5400rpm hard-drive (upgradeable to 100gb), oh and a battery that’s rated for up to six hours, it’s a mobile powerhouse.

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There are two screen options; the ST5111 has a 10.4-inch XGA reflective front-lit display optimised for outdoor use, while the ST5112 has a bigger, 12.1-inch XGA wide-view display, also rated for indoor and outdoor use, with a 160 degree viewing angle, but without the front-lighting.  Both come with a/b/g WiFi and Bluetooth, while the ST5112 has a fingerprint reader in addition to the Smart Card slot each has as standard.  Options include a 9-cell battery that should last up to nine hours, a dual-mic array (only on the ST5112 model) and docking station (giving three USB 2.0 ports, Firewire, VGA-out, ethernet (RJ-45) port, audio line-out, DC-in, and a modular bay for weight saver, DVD-ROM, CD-RW/DVD combo, or DL Multi-Format DVD Writer).

The ST5111 starts at $2,429 and the ST5112 at $2,199.

Press Release and Product Page [via jkontherun]

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Lenovo Tianyi F50 With Dolby Surround

Wednesday, November 22nd

You think ThinkPad is style less and ugly? Lenovo the maker of ThinkPad is going to release a new laptop that does not look like an oldie notebook. The Tianyi F50 is equipped with Dolby home Theatre support giving user a virtual surround experience with 5.1 channels and from the picture of it, the F50 is looking pretty spiffy. Not much information on this lappie yet, but as soon as we got more information, we’ll post it up. So stay tune for it!

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Lenovo’s new Tianyi F50 laptop does it up Dolby style [via engadget]

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